Forty-five years of registration statistics, proving vaccination to be both useless and dangerous. In two parts / By Alfred R. Wallace.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1889
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    Conclusion from the Evidence. The result of this brief enquiry may be thus summarized :— (i.)—Vaccination does not diminish Small- pox mortality, as shown by the 45 years of the Registrar-General's statistics, and by the deaths from Small-pox of our re-vaccinated soldiers and sailors being as numerous as those of the male population of the same ages of several of our large towns, although the former are picked, healthy men, while the latter include many thousands living under the most unsanitary conditions. (2.)—While thus utterly powerless for good, vaccination^ is a certain cause of disease and death in many cases, and is the probable cause of about 10,000 deaths annually by five inocu- lable diseases of the most terrible and disgusting character, which have increased to this extent, steadily, year by year, since vaccination has been enforced by penal laws ! (3.)—The hospital statistics, showing a greater * The operation itself kills many. The Registi-ai-General gives, under the head of Cow-pox and other effects [eiysipelas, &c.] of vaccination for the years 1881 to 1S86, the following deaths of infants under one yeai'. In the countiy, 255 deaths. In London, 61. Total for the six years, 316.—Ed.